New Years Trip to Tromsø
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- Опубліковано 15 січ 2022
- Happy New Year all of you :)
Finally I got a little film made for you all, a trip to Tromsø, down to Gratangen and further down to Oslo. I hope you will enjoy the trip :)
As a lot of you know, there has been health issues in my near Family, and I have also been attending some scans of a tumor in my throat, but luckily, so far, there is no sign of cancer :) The tumor will be monitored in the future, to see if it is still growing, however, I feel ok, and so far, not too worried :)
I had to buy me a new action cam, the old one, didn't like falling off my truck, doing 80km/h. I look forward to use some of the new cams features in the future :)
As always, the music used is royalty free, downloaded from my account at Epidemicsound.com
I often get questions about getting work in Scandinavia, and questions about drivers salary.. My salary is according to the agreement between the Danish unions and the employers, look it up..
I do not help people getting work, sorry guys, firstly I wouldn't know how to, second, I would never recommend anybody I don't know personally, this is a business sadly with a low profit margin, and therefore, you need to know peoples driving history, to recommend them to an employer..
Its always nice to see a video of you and blue bird in action!
Wish you all the best for 2022, stay safe, keep on truckin'!
And a lot of video's in 2022 of that amazing Scandinavian landscape!
Thank you very much Johnnie 😊🙏 I promise, my next video, shouldn't be that far away 😉
Top👌🏻prachtige beelden met goeie muziek👍😎
Thank you very much 😊 🙏
Saw your channel for the first time! Beautiful landscapes up there in the north in the wintertime. And the light on your way to Tromsø after the customs - absolutely magic! And why do you think that these pictures might be boring for the viewers?? It is boring for the wrong (!) viewers, not for trucking fans. So, please more pan-nordic roundtrips!! Take care and all the best on the road. With best regards from Germany.👍👋
Wouah....What a wonderful Sunday to see You back ! With a great video, as always....we missed You so much !
I wish You a healthy & happy 2022. Keep trucking safely on these tricky roads & stay SAFE !
Thks for all your efforts to share your best Scandinavian experiences !
Thank you so much Pierre 😊🙏 I promise, you won't have to wait as long for the next video 😉
Happy new year and happy to see you back.
I saw one of your trailers in Cornwall last September. Thank you for sharing your travels and I really enjoy looking at the scenery.
Stay safe from Swansea South Wales 🏴
Thank you very much Rob 😊🙏 I think somewhere out in the future, the N&K logo, will be replaced with DFDS, since they bought the whole company last year
Great that you meet my friends and old boss Michel& Danny Kraemer 👍
Nice trip, Slipses 😍
Just fantastic to see you back behind the wheel again, really hope you and the Mrs have a great New Year.
Just really beautiful footage of your trip to Tromso, stunning scenery also.
Looking forward to the next video, please don’t make us wait so long!😂😂.
Kind regards from Scotland 🏴
Johnny
Thank you very much Johnny 😊🙏 I promise, if all goes well, I should have the next one ready in a couple of weeks 😉
What a excellent video loved the music and scenery looking forward to the next one
Thank you very much Sidney 😊🙏 I promise, the next video, will be up pretty soon 😉
December 30 - 31 we drove from Stockholm to Rovaniemi and from Rovaniemi to Lofoten Norway.
The views at this time of the year are stunning!
I agree 100% , however it is also a question of being lucky with the weather 😉
Fireworks at the gas station ? What could possibly go wrong hahaha
Hahahaha... I was thinking the same thing 🤣🤣🤣
Happy New Year! Just fascinating to watch! That person riding the bicycle at around 9 minutes in… hard core! Really enjoy your videos! Thank you!
Thank you very much Jon 😊🙏 they have these electric mountain bikes up there, with fat studded tires, I agree, it looks wild 😁
Good luck to you and your family for the New Year.
Thank you Sean 😊🙏
Great video and music. From Midway, Georgia USA
Thank you very much Carter, I am glad you enjoyed the trip 😊🙏
Très content pour votre retour, happy new year.
Merci Beaucoup 😊🙏
Happy New Year, great to see your latest video, its never boring up North.
Italy sounds pretty good though. Looking forward to your next trips. 👍🏻
Thank you Andy 😊🙏 and I agree, those landscapes never grow old 😉
Happy new year to you also.Nice to see you're back.Stay safe and wish you good and safe trips👊👍🙋♂️.
Thank you very much Cor 😊🙏
a very nice video, thank you for those one, they are always very nice.
Thank you very much Klaas 😊🙏
Thanks for a very nice video! This is never boring, keep them coming :)
Thank you Sam 😊🙏 I promise, the next one isn't so far away 😉
great ! thanks and Happy truckyear !!!!
Thank you 😊🙏
Dejlig at du er tilbage er vild med dine gode videoer
Tusind tak Lars 😊🙏
Without a doubt this is my new favourite channel! The landscape is stunning and your content is anything but boring. I’d watch your journeys in real time! Please keep them coming. Thank you.
Just real fantastic scenari show
Stunning!
For other watching this video, we must use left indicator on roundabout in Norway. It is good to show others drivers where you heading and good for flouting traffic.
Thanks for the trip happy new year, watching from England.
Glad to have you onboard, and thank you Will 😊🙏
Another fantastic video, thank u for taking me along. Happy New Year, b healthy n happy.
Thank YOU D.J 😊🙏
Love the footage of the scenery thanks slipses
Hi, friend
Have a nice 2022!!!!!!
Your tours are never boring, you make them very enjoyable.
I carry Norway and Sweden in my heart.
Driving in the snow you are great!!!!
Reminds me of back in the 1990's when I drove an International 9700 cabover up to and back from Quebec in Canada.
Hi Alex 😊 just out of curiosity, do you miss your cabover?
I have a friend in Iowa, he drives a new Volvo "nose truck" and he wrote on more occasions, that he misses the old cabover.
I would love the extra space, that you have in the trucks over there, but they would be a menace to drive around in the tight places we have over here.
@@Slipse Not really. Aside from deliveries in NYC and Montreal, I usually had enough maneuvering space for an extra meter of nose. Our trailers were either 14.54m or 16.06m long, with the 16.06m length being most common.
I spent a full summer driving a short-nose Mack C-series (400 hp, 9-sp Eaton-Fuller Roadranger), and it didn't have any more length or width inside the cab, but the floor was flat and you could stand up if you were shorter than about 1.75m tall, which I'm not, but at least it felt roomier. I also once drove a Freightliner with a long, high nose; THAT was scary to drive in traffic!
With the extra nose length, the longer wheelbase gave a better ride, and the engine was further forward, making the cab a bit quieter. Also, you never had to worry about your steer axle being overweight, like would happen in the cabover (our limits were usually 5,454kg steer, and 15,454kg on the 2 drive axles).
@@Slipse BTW, as to truck lengths here in the US; there are some regions and toll roads where very long trucks are common. The longest I saw was a combination on the Kansas Turnpike, where a long-nose Freightliner was pulling 2 57' trailers (17.27m) trailers with a 2-axle dolly. Total length was about 45m.
There are some huge differences between our trucks and weight limits 😉 my truck and trailer weighs 22 ton empty, and the total weight is 50 ton. 8 ton on my steering axle, 18 ton on the bogie, and 24 ton on the triple trailer axles. - this is for Scandinavia only, anything south of Denmark is merely 40 total weight.
The third axle on my truck is a tag axle, fitted for use in Norway, with a special software, that allows me to transfer the air pressure to the drive axle, so ie. going up a slippery hill, I push a button on the dashboard, and put maybe 15 ton on the drive axle, and the tag axle will only press with 3 ton - I can see the weight on the center display on the dashboard, in severe cases, I can even lift the tag axle fully loaded, and will have 18 ton on my drive axle. All this can be done while driving, and it just takes a few seconds to transfer the pressure.
The empty weight for the truck is just under 10 ton, and the trailer weighs a notch over 12 ton.
The reason for the trailer being this heavy is because it has a stronger subframe and the box is strengthened for the full side opening of the left side, and it has double compound reefer, for 2 temp zones and doublestock bars for carrying 66 europallets.
@@Slipse Our trucks were mostly 15 tons (30,000 lbs) empty, with a loaded maximum of 40 tons (80,000 lbs) loaded. Our trailer 'tandems' slide, so that we can comply to different state 'kingpin-to-rear-axle' length requirements (my state allows 42 feet, but California only allows 40 feet). Our tractors almost always have 2 drive axles, with a 'power divide' switch to lock them together in low traction situations. Side-opening trailers are very rare here in the states; almost all palletized freight is unloaded from the rear at a dock, refrigerated or dry freight.
I haven't actually driven a truck in 16 years, not since the last time I worked in a transportation company (and haven't regularly driven in nearly 24 years), but I still have my license. I completed my engineering degree and now work in manufacturing. Also, I'm on hemodialysis, so long-distance driving is no longer something I can do.
OTR driving here in the states is a job where there is little professionalism any more. Most drivers in the US today are semi-literate, and few have anything more than a secondary school education, if that. Drivers today can take as little as a 3 week driving course and get hired. Many states have extremely easy driving tests, and you'll find a huge number of licensed drivers who can't even back a trailer into a dock.
Even when I left the industry, few drivers could properly balance out a load or fill out customs paperwork. I used to drive to Quebec, but few people wanted this run because almost none of them could manage driving in a French-speaking region. I can only imagine that things have become worse since then.
Just what I needed before going to bed. Happy new year, I hope you and your family remain healthy. Always thank you for the amazing content. Greetings from Greece🇬🇷
Thank YOU Achilles 😊🙏 I miss driving to Greece, would be wonderful with a trip there now and then, but that party was over back in 2003 😪
@@Slipse I was born in 2003 😅
@@achilles055 Hahaha... but I am sure it wasn't your fault, that this driving ended 🤣🤣
@@Slipse Phew 😁
Best ride in the middle of the night when u can't sleep. B safe out there n thanks again for the ride in the winter wonderland.
Thanks for this one Slipse, loved it as always
Thank you Oliver 😊🙏
Thanks! Fantastic Northern landscape!
You are welcome, glad you enjoyed it 😊🙏
Happy New year excellent as usual thanks for taking us with you just love your country ☺️
Thank you Bernard 😊🙏 I need to say, I am a guest in Norway, since I live in Denmark 😉
Da geht mir daß Herz auf ! Früher bin ich auch in Norwegen gefahren Richtung -Deutschland . Ich liebe euer Land !!!
Happy New Year my friend !!!hope your and your family's health problems are resolved asap. thank you for the beautiful pictures, good job and have a nice day....stay strong 💪👍✌
Thank you Leonox 😊🙏 and you to
@@Slipse
Great video Slipses, thanks for the effort you put in.... i hope you and your family a healthy 2022, keep trucking - all the best from Scotland!!
oh, and looking forward to the Italy trip!! ;)...
Glad to see you back!! Great video, thanks for sharing!
Thank YOU JB 😊🙏
Happy New Year!!!! Great stuff my friend!!! ;)
Thank YOU Alan, glad to see you are still around, after my long absence 😊🙏
Happy New Year to you, Mrs A and Blue Bird. Good to see your doing good and totally agree that we hope 2022 will be better for all of us. Safe travels to the south of Europe and stay safe. Cheers
Thank you very much Buddy 😊🙏
Nice to see you saying hello to the snow plows.
No to nieźle. Choć też się śmiga w takich warunkach👍🔔.
So glad you're back! I enjoy your video's so much! Happy New Year to you and your loved ones. Safe journeys and please take care! Greetings from the Netherlands!
Thank you very much Monique 😊🙏
THANKS LOVE FROM TURKEY
Happy new year end beautiful video
Thank you Marco 😊🙏
What a good surprise to see you again, it is with great pleasure that I wish you a very happy new year 2022.
Thank you for this beautiful video with always beautiful images. Good road to you!
Thank you so much Roland 😊🙏
Einfach wieder sehr schön anzusehen. Besten Dank
Danke sehr Wilhelm 😊🙏
Brilliant footage 👌 🇳🇴 ❄️
Thank you very much 😊 🙏
Hi Fleming . Happy New year to you and family. Been looking forward to seeing more of your brilliant and entertaining videos. Keep them coming please. All the best. Take care, stay safe.👍👍👍
Hi Mark 😊 and thank you very much 😊🙏 I promise, it won't be that long before the next one is up 😉
So good to see you back again Slipses. Good to know that you and the family are all okay.
Great video as always, can see why you never get tired of Norway. Stay safe my friend, and greetings from Holland. Best wishes, Grahame.
Thank you very much Grahame 😊🙏 always good to hear from you 😊
Strangely it's seems videos are better than what's on 📺 nowadays. SAFE TRAVELS 🇺🇲. 🚛 💨 💨 💨
Thank you 😊🙏 that is some compliment 😊
Hi Slipses, beautiful video again.
my trip from Oslo too Tromsø 23 hours and 45 min
Hey slipses hope your well and your family nice motor I'm ok keep on trucking
Happy New Year to you and your family. 2021 Was a sad year for me glad it is gone. You are not only a professional driver but also really good at editing. There was so many interesting comments and also thank you for videoing the hole trip. Hope there are no more medical problems in 2022.😎 Good tip WW2 Narvik interesting.
Thank you very much MrRinkly 😊🙏 Yes, we can only hope and pray, things will change for the better, and keep an optimistic mind 😉 I promise I will do my part, and try keep the videos coming 😉
Just great to see you back Slipses. (We all missed you, and your videos).
Thank you very much Victor 😊🙏 glad you stayed around, in my long absence 🤗
@@Slipse I hung around, just knew you’d turn up one day,
Very well worth the wait Slipses!.
good new year and again very good video
Thank you Wilfried 😊🙏
Wow.. I love u re Country.. Greetings and drive carefully
Thank you very much Toni 😊🙏
Great video as usual!
Brilliant…
fajna trasa! nice trip:)
Thank you very much Pawel 😊🙏
Hej hej, nice Vlog of your Journey !!
Been driving for NVO, a Holland company specialized in Scandinavian tours.
Never been higher then Gävle or Bergen, love the way up North...
Drive safe, and stay safe.
Thank you very much for the comment 😊🙏 I hope you will get the chance to go up north one fine day 😊
BEAUTIFUL VIDEO GOOD SONG FOR THE TRIP THANK YOU , I LOOK MY DREAM THANK YOU FROM FRENCH
Nice trip, I have enjoyed it 👍I Will be waiting for the next video. Greetings from a busdriver living in Friesland (NL)
Thank you 😊🙏 I promise it won't be that long 😉
Поздрави от България
Hi Fleming. Wondered why there had been no videos, but reading your reply to previous comments I can fully understand why. Wish Mrs Anderson all the best for a full recovery. Hope all goes well for you all in the future. When things sort out we can perhaps look forward to some more of your super videos. But, family comes first. My very best wishes always. Mark. 👍👍👍
Sorry, Mrs Andersen I should have said.
Hey Slipses, how are you doin? Nice to see you back again, hope you and your family are well and keeping free of the covid. I’m so done with everything to do with it. As you say, we just want 2022 to be free of it and our lives get back to some normality. The vid was top class, so much beautiful scenery which was extra special around new year. The vid seems like a new format, slightly different, which I like. You gotta keep it fresh. Looking forward to next time. I’ll never get bored of your films, so do as much as you can. Drive safe man.👍🏻👍🏻🇬🇧🚚
Thank you very much Mike 😊🙏
Yes, we have avoided the Chinese Bat flu until now 😂
I am getting to know my videoeditor better better and better, there are so many cool functions, to make the videos better 😊
All I need now is a new Dashcam, so I can record all my clips in 4K format, for a better quality.. But as you know, we can't get all the toys we want just here and now, when there is a home and a wife also to be considered 😉😂😂
Yes fingers crossed, let's hope we've seen the top of the Covid 19 mayhem 😉
Nice winter-car at the end, 23:08
Thanks for the great video stunning scenery oh happy New Year to you and your wife hope your ok thanks slipse
Thank you very much Mark 😊🙏
Your back, at last something decent on yt
Thank you Neil 😊🙏
awesome video
Welcome back
Hello mate and first of all, I also wish you an happy new year....I ' m really happy to watch one more of your vidéos and that one is one of the best I think....how long since the last one ? 8 eight month ? F*** 8 long month 😉....
I can easily imagine that driving your new toy is à pleasure no ?
Waiting for the next one , wherever it is, I know it will be great !
Greatings from Brittany.
Long time no see , hope you and your family are doing well
Flot video fra min landsdel bor selv på Andøya i Nordland .
hi just found your channel great vid got your self a new subscriber ive been to tromso a few times as i have a friend ther beautiful place over the past few years norway as been my number one holiday destination always in the winter as i do like the snow but im going to tromso in july this year so yeah i know to take my sunglasses lol ho love the music too
Thank you very much David 😊👍
Slipses,
Have you given up posting videos??, l/we really enjoyed your videos , they had a special content,with your editing, really miss them !.
( I’m sure that “we” all hope that your family are reunited, and are now fit & well . ==
Greetings from Scotland 🏴! ).
Nice vídeo 👍
Salut l'Ami,de magnifique images ,de beau paysage,passe de bonne et heureuse année 2022.
Merci beaucoup Roger 😊🙏
mega god video
Wonderful vıdeo.Greetıngs from Turkıye
Nice..👌braders jack
Hello from CHILE
god kveld igjen vakkert bilde takk
G’day Slipses, I just discovered your channel & thoroughly enjoyed watching this video.
Loved the scenery & the music :)
We are experiencing a heatwave here in Perth, Western Australia, just had three consecutive days of 40 degrees Celsius with another two days of the same to come.
It was nice to see snow & cooler weather, took my mind off the heat :)
One day I hope to visit your part of the world & experience snow for the first time?
I look forward to watching more of your informative & beautifully shot videos showcasing your job & the spectacular countryside you drive through.
Can you please tell me what music you used in this video, absolutely loved the soundtrack!
Best wishes from Australia & stay safe on the roads :)
Thank you very much Barry 😊🙏 with those kind of temperatures, I don't blame you for wishing a bit of snow 😂 personally I'm not good with temperatures above 25 degrees C, specially not if I have to do something productive 😉
I am glad you enjoyed the trip, about the music, I will have to come back to you, when I get on my computer.
All tracks were downloaded from my account at something called Epidemicsound.com.
All the best, Slipse
LIKE 207...greetings from Sao Paulo/BRAZIL.
Glad you enjoyed it Antonio 😊🙏
Salut è passato un po di tempo ben tornato
hello from CHILE
I understand you from time to time travel true Tana in nordern Norway. You might have seen a Mercedes dump truck with text " Keep Norway kleen, wreck a Scania "
Hahaha.. no, I haven't seen that one 🤣
That was a very fast trip from Tromsø to oslo - in record time 🤣
så vackert
Thanks for another interesting and informative video. Can I ask what facilities are there in North Norway for trucks in the way of truck stops and overnight parking shower facilities etc, are you allowed to park at the delivery points? My experience of winter in Norway was based with the U.K. military at Bardufos for winter training. Also had the pleasure of working in Trondheim in the summer and winter. Best wishes for 2022 and look forward to the trip to Italy
Thank you very much Richard 😊🙏
It varies a lot when it comes to facilities, some places there are nice truckstops, where you can shower, hook up your trailer to electric connections, so you save some fuel, and it runs less noisy 😉
Most of the fish slaughteries, have parking space, toilet and shower for the drivers, because a lot of waiting is normal, and when the loads are ready, you need to have full drive time.. as we drivers usually say, there is nothing, there is more busy than a dead fish 🙄😂
It can be hard to plan to reach the better parkings, when you need to max out your driving/work time and often one ends up on a small layby with absolutely nothing there, so when you get experienced, you need to fit in the daily needs, where you can, before ending up in the wilderness for a night's rest 😉
Hello Slipses. Watched you for the first time and hope your throat is okay.
I have enjoyed it very much as I come from a family who had a truck fleet.
I work for Scania in Australia (currently home on holidays ). How does your R660 go?? And is it fitted with the new gearbox??
Apart from that I hope you continue to have safe trips. All the very best.
Hi Greg 😊 Glad to have you on board 😊 yes my truck is fitted with Scanias new gearbox, it shifts like lightning, and it does wonders for the fuel consumption, specially on the straights.
I think the engine is perfect for Norway, the torque is ample. Together with the new gearbox it is a perfect combination. In Europe all trucks are electronically speed limited to 90km/h, when driving 90km/h in overdrive, the engine only does 980 rpm, which is still in the full torque range (2300 nm from 950 - 1450 rpm) so all she does is the sweet rumble, and it pulls like mad 😁👍 So even in these hilly conditions, I seldom use other than the economy mode. It is a total breeze to drive 🤗
@@Slipse Thats great to here!! We are getting one of these soon as a demo but it is a 6x4.
By the way, what diff ratio is yours running?? I see your truck is a 6x2 is that correct?
As for the sweet rumble there is nothing better sounding!!
Take care my friend.
Yes it is a 6 x 2, I am not sure about the diff ratio to be honest, I will have to check back in my boss's files, when I get back to the base, I have just started a new trip this morning
Driving this job profit is not very good. The body will slowly hurt if it is not taken care of. I can empathize! I am also in this industry. I also wish you a safe journey. Be in good health
You are right, wierd really, that we aren't valued more for the function we have in modern day society, imagine if every trucker world wide parked up for a week..!!
One good thing about driving so far north is that you really have few worries about heavy traffic - there's no one on the road. BTW - where is their electricity produced and how is it produced?
Mostly hydroelectricity in Norway... it’s the one thing not crazy expensive in the country!
haha, In summer the roads are choked with German camper vans who drive very dangerously. Lots of tourists in summer makes it a chore.
Hi Hal, windpower is also gaining terrain up here 😊
@@adelarsen9776 too true 🤣🤣🤣
thanks for the videos, you are partially the reason why I angered up myself that I can never drive in Norway because no company goes there (at least I could never find one), so I said F this Schitt, imma move there and become a norwegian truck driver :D I started learning the language already, thanks for the motivation :D
you are welcome Johnny 😊 I hope you will find what you are looking for .. be glad you weren't here this week though.. the weather turned mild and rainy within 15 minutes, and it was like iceskating with 50 ton... I hate when that happens 😳
Tak for endnu en rigtig god video😁. Håber du er glad for din nye bil😁. Det var mig der hilste på dig i går ved Aalborg😁. Kørte i en danske fragtmand bil😁.
Hej Jan 😊 jeg var lidt sent på den, men tror lige jeg nåede at hilse tilbage 😁 og tak for roserne 😊🙏
@@Slipse Ja det er jo ikke altid lige man mår at hilse tilbage😀. Heller ikke nem når man ikke lige ved hvem der køre i hvad og for hvem😀. Du har jo mange følger😀. Dvsl😁. Ser altid frem til dine film👍.
@10:30 I like your comment on 2 Teslas :)
😂😂😂 I know they are cool cars, but I still prefer "real" engines 😉
Hi Slipses,
Have you given up posting your videos on utube?,
Been awaiting your return for quite some time now,
Hope all is well with you & your family,
Cheers from Scotland 🏴.
Hi Victor, I am sorry I am letting you all down atm. But my wife has been ill since january, and she is hospitalized, so my mind hasn't been in the creative corner for quite some time. I will be back, I promise, just not sure when
Are you paid well for the job.stay safe Lyn
What can I say, I make an OK living, however this is not a job that one does for the money, I do it because I like it 😉
If what you meant is, if I make more money, than a driver going ie to southern Europe, then the answer is no.
Hey dude! You got any best tricks and tips to scandinavia trucking? I'm Finnish and im starting a new job including Finland , Sweden ,Norway and Denmark. I have heard that you could get by only speaking English?
English will be fine 👍🏻 at least here in northern Norway